STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: Continuing his drive to provide better civic & development activities for the citizens of Jammu, Chander Mohan Gupta, Mayor JMC in presence of Advocate Purnima Sharma Deputy Mayor, Narinder Singh Jamwal Chairman Health & Sanitation Committee, Yash Pal Sharma Chairman Swacch Bharat committee, Kuldeep Singh Chairman Social Justice Committee, Amit Gupta Councillor of Ward No. 19 today laid foundation stone of the prestigious project of establishment of charging station for E-Rickshaws at Municipal land Dogra Chowk near Jewel, Jammu.
Anil Gupta Executive Engineer, Neeraj Vaid Assistant Executive Engineer, K.K Bali Junior Engineer & other Supervisory Staff of Project Division JMC, Talat Mahmood I/c Chief Transport Officer along with field staff of Transport Wing & prominent citizens of Ward 19 were present during the programme.
Mayor told that under “Swachh Bharat Mission” JMC has initiated number of steps to keep Jammu City neat, clean & green from the last three years with the active support of all the councilors of JMC after they elected by the public and carrying it forward the foundation stone of much needed project for charging E-Rickshaws has been laid today which is first of its kind in Jammu City with an estimate cost of Rs 22 lakh only & it will be completed within three months of time period. He further told that about thirty numbers of E-Rickshaws will be engaged for garbage collection in the first phase especially in the different wards of the old city for providing better sanitation facilities to the citizens.
Later, Mayor along with Rajinder Singh Jamwal Councillor of Ward 39, Prabhat Singh Jamwal Senior BJP Leader, Balwant Singh & other prominent inhabitants of the ward as well as Kamal Pal Singh, Junior Engineer PWD also conducted tour of the ward & started the remaining work of blacktopping of roads & nearby lanes at Shanti Nagar near employment exchange office on the request of the locals which was their long pending demands as due to deteriorated condition of the roads, they were suffering great hardships while passing through the area & thanked the Mayor for starting the macadamize work.
Besides this, Mayor alongwith prominent inhabitants of Ward 33, Hira Lal Khajuria Sanitary Inspector & concerned Sanitary Supervisor & field staff of ward conducted an extensive tour of the Shiv Nagar & its adjoining localities, met with the locals, listened to their issues & took stock of the Sanitation facilities provided in the ward & directed the concerned to personally visit each locality of the ward on routine basis.